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THE NEWBERRY SUN. NEWBERRY. S. C, WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Farm Groups OK Brannan Choice; Truce Request Fails in Palestine; GM Wage Pact Could Set Pattern By Bill Schoentgen, WNU Staff Writer (EDITOR’S NOTE: When opiniont are expressed in these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) APPROVED: Brannan^ President Truman’s choice of Charles F. Brannan to succeed Clinton Anderson as secretary of agriculture has received the whole hearted approval of the national farm organizations. They consider the 44-year-old former assistant secretary of agri culture "a friend of the farmer.” One of the bases for this feeling ' of harmony is the fact that Bran nan and the farm organizations con cur in thinking that the prewar parity law is badly outdated. Such crops as soybeans, for in stance, have attained a much great er importance since the law was passed but still have no satisfactory price fixing basis. Other farmers, including cattle and dairy produc ers, claim their parity scales are out of line in this postwar period. Ideas developed by Brannan to help remedy this situation have been largely adopted by the lead ing farm groups and are incorpo rated in bills now pending before congress. Unless congress acts by the end of this year the law guar anteeing farm prices at 90 per cent of the fixed parity rate will expire. Serving quietly as assistant sec retary of agriculture for the past four years, Brannan has made himself the backbone of the ad ministration’s drive to enact a long- range farm program. Thus, the farmers think a lot of Brannan because he has demon strated that he is looking out for their interests in a realistic, level headed fashion. President Truman, it appeared, had made a good choice in putting Brannan at the head of the de partment. Almost everybody was satisfied, and that, in an election year, was a most desirable situa tion for Mr. Truman. FAILURE: No Peace It was difficult to say who would suffer more from the Arabs’ rejec tion of U. N. truce plea for Pales tine — the Arabs themselves, the Jews or the United Nations. Probably the Jews came off to better advantage in the world coun cils of public opinion, inasmuch as through their willingness to accept a truce they now can appear in the role of a nation which has been wronged and is forced to fight a war that has been thrust willy nilly upon it The Arabs simply brushed aside the idea of a truce with the con tention that they could not halt the shooting war until the state of Israel is abandoned and the Jewish army demobilized. There never was any question in the minds of Arab lead ers about the truce. It was literal ly unacceptable to them. Their position was stated definitively by the Egyptian premier, Mahmoud Fahmy Nokrashy Pasha, who said: “There never will be founded a state called Israel, or any other name, as long as the creation of (hat state relies upon the theft of Arab land, the extermination of its Arab owners and the sacrifice of moral principles of its Arab neigh bors.” Nevertheless, the Arab refusal was a bitter blow to the U. N. security council. It had been or ganized for the express purpose of resolving just such disputes as this one in Palestine, yet it could do nothing more than make a weak gesture of placation. There was little doubt that the se curity council had been rendered toothless and impotent on the Pal estine issue by the U. S. attitude, or rather lack of attitude. What position the United States would take as an individual nation with regard to the Palestine war was not clear either. At a conference with Chaim Weizmann, Israel’s president. Pres ident Truman promised that the U. S. would provide financial sup port for Israel in the form of a loan of about 100 million dollars. Further, he hinted at the possibility that unless the Arab states cease fire the U. S. might provide arms for the Jews. Day after the conference, how ever, Mr. Truman dismissed Weiz- mann’s plea for a loan as some thing that could be handled by the export-import bank, and he com pletely ducked the issue of raising the embargo on arms shipments to the Middle East. No Quarter Fires of war between Arab and Jew continued to burn in the Holy Land when the Arab states re fused to comply with a U. N. re quest for a truce. Attacking Jew ish forces at all points, the Arabs said they would not quit until the Jews renounced their new state of Israel. Meanwhile, as victorious Haganah troops took over Acre (1), Egyptian planes intensified the air attack on Tel Aviv (2) and Arab troops enjoyed their great est victories in Jerusalem (3). PAY HIKE: New Formula When General Motors corporation averted a threatened strike of 225,- 000 auto production workers by of fering an 11-cent raise based on a cost-of-living formula it probably set a precedent which will be fol lowed in settling other industrial labor disputes. Under the agreement, described as an “entirely new approach to the living cost problem,” GM pro duction workers get an 8-cent cost- of-living increase and a 3-cent pay boost based on annual industrial efficiency improvement. Terms provide that wages be ad justed up or down each three months to conform with fluctua tions in the consumer price index of the bureau of labor statistics. It appeared to be a sound plan and one that might be followed to good advantage by other industries. Biggest flaw in the scheme was the fact that General Motors might have to pass the cost-of-living raise on to the public, which step might have the eventual effect of nullify ing the benefits of the raise to the workers. Significance of this adjustable cost-of-living wage formula can be seen in a review of the rise in prices since 1940. The cost of liv ing today is 69 per cent higher than in 1940. Using 1940 as a base year —which is what GM and the United Auto Workers did in arriving at their agreement—living costs now are at 169 per cent. VOICE: Belittling Voice of America broadcasts, which have never received a full measure of congressional approval, sank to an even lower level of disesteem because of a series of ill-starred programs beamed to Latin America last winter. The scripts in question, denounced by senators as sabotage, slander and libel of the U. S., first attracted attention in March during house appropriation committee hearings on the Voice of America. In the sample script that the committee wanted to look over were some ill- choseci remarks about Wyoming. Stout-hearted Wyoming congress men shrieked in anguish. Other scripts were examined, and Sen. Homer Capehart (Rep., Ind.) fin ally aired the whole thing before the senate. The legislators shuddered as they heard Capehart read from the scripts such excerpts as: “New England was founded by hypocrisy and Texas by sin.” “Nevada’s two main cities com pete with each other because peo ple get married in Las Vegas and divorced in Reno.” The programs were handled by the National Broadcasting company under contract with the state department. Rene Borgia, the man who wrote the scripts, was fired, and Alberto Gandero, Borgia’s sur pervisor, resigned. FEWER BENEFITS LOST People Are Discovering Social Security Although inadvertent loss of bene fits remains a major problem, the number of persons who deprive themselves of old-age and survivors insurance benefits because they de lay filing their claims is decreas ing steadily. That report has been made by the Federal Security agency’s so cial security administration. In announcing the improvement, O. C. Pogge, director of the administra tion’s bureau of old-age and sur vivors insurance in Baltimore, said: "Our continuing efforts to inform workers of their benefit rights have resulted in increased public aware ness that old-age and survivors in surance benefits are payable only if they are claimed.” ?Current Events? Although they might seem a bit obscure to anyone who doesn’t make a conscious effort to memorize the front page of a newspaper every day, these questions do have answers. As a matter of fact, the questions are so difficult that even the answers have answers. 1. Capitals of the seven Arab league states fighting Israel are: Mecca and Riyadh (dnal capitals of one state), Baghdad, Damas cus, Amman, Beirut, Cairo and Sana. What states do they be long to? V 2. Sir Alexander Fleming has been awarded the American Medal for Merit for his contribu tion to medical science. What contribution? 3. Republicans meet in Phila delphia this month to nominate their candidate for president. Where did the GOP nominate its last successful candidate? 4. When President Truman nominated Charles F. Brannan as secretary of agriculture it brought the total of Truman cabinet appointments to 10, 16 or 21? 5. Everyone knows that the Taft of the Taft-Hartley act is Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. Identify the Hartley. ANSWERS 1. Mecca and Riyadh, Saudi Arab- la; Baghdad, Iraq; Damascus. Syr ia; Amman, Trans-Jordan; Beirut, Lebanon; Cairo, Egypt; Sana, Ye men. 2. He discovered the germ-killing properties of penicillium mold— which led to development of penicil lin. 3. Last sucessful GOP candidate was Herbert Hoover, nominated in June, 1928, at Kansas City, Mo. 4. Mr. Truman has appointed 16 to the cabinet. 6. Rep. Fred A. Hartley, Jr. (Rep., N.J.) If Secretary of the Navy John Sullivan had possessed wings he probably would have flapped them in his enthusiasm when he went before the house armed services committee to urge con gress to let the navy speed de velopment of a 65,000-ton super aircraft carrier, costing 124 mil lion dollars. CORNBALL: For Breakfast Some of the more sentimental hands around the American Broad casting company’s Chicago studios like to think of Don McNeill as a beautiful and vibrant symbol of the rise and snowballing success of ABC itself. At least they both were young together and both had to fight their way up through a welter of opposable circum stances to find ad joining places in the sun. As toastmaster of the uninhibited Breakfast Club pro gram, McNeill will celebrate his 15th McNeill a n n i v e r s ary on June 23 with the same kind of capers he has been executing five days a week between 8 and 9 a. m. since 1933. Despite the subterranean regard which this sophisticated generation purports to hold for the more di rect and obvious types of humor, McNeill has found that being a cornball pays off. He works with out a script and his gags are strict ly off-the-cuff. He once invited a herpetologist (a student of reptiles and amphib ians) who visited the program, to “Come into the parking lot after the broadcast and I’ll show you a rare specimen. A windshield viper.” And when a New Jersey woman told him that her husband is a butcher and she is a corsetiere, he commented, “What an ideal ar rangement. He fattens them up and you pull them in.” McNeill parlays this kind of ex temporaneous patter-with a feeling of genuine camaraderie for the plain people who are guests on his show to produce a program that has had a nationwide cult of early morning listeners begging for more for 15 consecutive years. Unhealthy Families Families with two children are “^cially unhealthy,” however fash ionable they may be, the National Congress of Parents and Teachers in Cleveland was told by a Univer sity of Chicago professor of educa tion, Robert J. Havighurst. “A significant section of our population now have too few chil dren to reproduce themselves,” he told the delegates to the annual con vention. Fly Immunity to DDT Is Debatable Question Some Insects Develop Strain of Resistance Do flies become immune or re sistant to DDT after it has been used tor a few years? This question arises from the fact that a few fly-con trol failures on farms where DDT was effective in other years have been hard to ac count for. The ex planation was that the flies probably had become resist ant to the chemical. Uncle Sam’s entomologists admit that insects can develop resistance to the insecticides used against them, as in the case of the apple codling moth against, which lead ar senate lost its effectiveness. More over, Uncle Sam’s bug men say they have, in the laboratory, been able to develop a DDT-resistant strain of flies. It is not likely that a DDT- resistant strain would develop nat urally in the short time since DDT was first used. It is more reasonable to believe that the occasional failure on farms where DDT already has been used with good results is due to careless ness or inferior product. One thing in particular that should accompany the use of DDT is the destruction or removal of fly breed ing places, such as manure piles, weed piles, old stack bottoms and wet spots in barnyards. One or more such spots may be able to turn out flies faster than DDT can kill them, for DDT is not noted for fast action. A fly may survive for hours after alighting on a surface coated with DDT. Herds and Flocks New insecticide, pyrenone, has proved its effectiveness in control of flies on livestock. Better than some of the old-time fly killing in secticides, the new material is be ing used now in some livestock fly sprays. Use of protein supplements In rations for shotes always has been profitable. Some farmers have fail ed to use these supplements, though, because of their cost. Now that grain is so high, the cost of protein supplements is relatively low. So, if the use of supplements is more important one time than another, now is that time. It looks now like the farmer who has a flock of good pullets in the laying house next fall will get good prices for eggs. The better care you take of pullets now, the better they will be able to stand up under the strain of heavy laying next faa Benzene hexaohloride, recom mended by swine specialists at agri cultural colleges for control of hog lice and mange, now is being in corporated in hog oils that can be used in dipping vats, hog wallows, hog oilers or on rubbing posts. This farm grindstone, although badly battered about its entire diameter and worn quite flat in one place, was easily trued-up by dressing it with the sharp-pointed tool shown attached to the small board. The dark “cutting tip” of the tool is made of carboloy cemented carbide, the hardest metal made by man. Tests Show Tung Meal Poisonous to Chickens Tung meal proved unsatisfactroy as a source of protein in chick ra tions in tests conducted at the Florida agricultural experiment sta tion. The tung meal proved poison ous, whether raw, heated or heated and sifted. It caused heavy mor tality at 10 and 15 per cent levels. At 5 per cent and higher levels the tung meal interfered with feed utilization and growth. It’s Time to Turn Luscious Berries Into Tender Jellies WHEN ORCHARDS are covered with snow and vineyards no longer are bursting with their luscious berries, the best way to bring them back to the table is to serve, flavor-fresh, delicately tinted jel lies made from the berries at their peak of the season. A good idea is to make a sort of canning plan. Decide what your family likes most, figure out about how much they ate last year, and make up a program for the next year. Sort out your canning supplies, buying any necessary equipment before you start the work. When you make jellies and jams, try to work with small batches only. It seems to take less time, but far more important than that, the results are better. The jellies are tender and more colorful, and there is less chance of error. If you have fruits and berries with small pectin content of their own. When making jams and jellies, assemble yoor equipment and materials before yon begin cook ing the fruit. use a commercial product for quick work. You’ll save color and flavor as well as time and energy. For fruits and berries that have a naturally high pectin content, use small batches and cook quickly to have a perfect product. IF YOU’RE STARTING to make jelly now, the following fruit and berry combinations are excellent for appetite appeal. They are also in seasoi) in most parts of the coun try so that you can make them readily: 1. Blackberry and rhubarb 2. Boysenberry and rhubarb 3. Dewberry and rhubarb 4. Loganberry and rhubarb 5. Raspberry and rhubarb 6. Youngberry and rhubarb Here is the recipe for jelly made from any of the above combina tions: 3 cups juice 4 cups sugar 1 box powdered fruit pectin To prepare juice, crush thorough ly or grind about one quart of fully ripe berries. Cut into one-inch lengths (do not peel) about one pound of rhubarb, and put through food chopper. Place fruits in jelly bag or cloth and squeeze out juice. Measure sugar and set aside until needed. Measure juice into a three- or four-quart saucepan and place over hottest fire. Add powdered fruit pectin, mix well and continue stirring until mixture comes to a hard boil. Pour in sugar at once, stirring constantly. Continue stir ring, bring to a full rolling boif and boil hard one-half minute. Re move from fire, skim and pour quickly into seven six-ounce glasses. Paraffin hot jelly at once. * * • ARE YOU FOND of unusual jel lies? Here’s an old-fashioned one with a lovely and unusual delicate flavor: Rose Geranium Jelly Select tart, sound apples. Wash and cut off blossom* ends. Do not remove peeling or cores. Cut into quarters and barely cover with water. Cook until fruit is tender. Strain juice through a jelly bag and measure. Bring to boiling point and add three-fourths cup of sugar for each cup of juice. Boil rapidly to jelly stage (dip spoon into syrup. As the boiling mass nears the jellying point it will drop LYNN CHAMBERS’ MENU Creamed Potato Salad Sliced Ham Tomato Wedges Carrot Sticks Biscuits with Currant Jelly* Melon Beverage ♦Recipe Given from the side of the spoon in two drops). When almost done, im merse in the boiling jelly two or three rose geranium leaves. These wilt quickly and give off their flavor. Tint with rose vegetable coloring. Pour into sterilized jelly glasses and paraffin at once. • • • HERE ARE TWO PERFECT berries for jelly making. You’ll be delighted with (heir fresh fruit flavors and beautiful colors: ♦Currant Jelly Select currants that are not over ripe. Remove leaves but do not stem. Mash with potato masher. Add one-half cup of water to each two quarts of berries. Cook 10 minutes stirring frequently. Strain through jelly bag. Use three- fourths cup sugar for each cup of juice. Heat juice, add sugar and stir until it dissolves. Cook until the syrup sheets off the spoon. Seal in hot, sterilized glasses. Red Raspberry Jelly (Makes 12 6-ounce glasses) 3 quarts red raspberries 71/2 cups sugar 1 bottle fruit pectin Thoroughly crush raspberries; plac'e in jelly bag and squeeze out juice. There should be four cups. Heat juice; add sugar; bring to boiling, stirring constantly. Add fruit pectin. Bring to a full roll ing boil; boil one-half minute. Re move from heat; skim; seal in hot sterilized glasses. • • • HERE ARE TWO very special recipes which you will enjoy hav ing for they are perfectly delicious and make wonderful accompani ments to any meal, breakfast, lunch or dinner. Deluxe Strawberry Preserves 2 pounds capped berries 4 tablespoons lemon juice 5 cups sugar Mix berries with sugar. Let stand three to four hours. Place over low heat until simmering point is reached. Add lemon juice. Boil rapidly for 10 to 12 minutes or until berries are clear and the syrup thick. Cover and let 'stand over Berries, which are making their appearance now, should be converted into jams and jellies before they get too ripe. night. Pack cold into hot jars and process 15 minutes at simmering (in hot water bath). If you’re making watermelon rind preserves, do so at the early part of the season for the rind is thicker on watermelon. Watermelon Rind Preserves 2 pounds watermelon rind 1 tablespoon ground ginger 4 cups sugar 2 lemons 2 quarts of water Cut off all green peel and pink part. Then cut rind into one-inch squares. Soak two to three hours in lime water. Freshen in two or three more changes of water. Sprin kle ginger over rind. Cover with water and boil one and a half hours. Drain and drop into cool syrup made with sugar, water and lemon juice, of one lemon. Boil gently one hour. Add second lemon, sliced thin. Continue boiling until the rind is tender and the syrup thick. If syrup gets too thick before rind is tender add a little more water. Let stand several hours. Pack into hot jars, and process in a water bath for 15 minutes at simmering tem perature. Released bj WNU Features LYNN SAYS: Pointers Will Help You In Making Jams, Jellies Broken fruits may be used for making jams, but at least a por tion of the fruit should be under ripe. Overripe fruits and berries lack pectin, and some pectin is necessary to make the mixture “jel ly.” It’s a good idea to cook fruits and berres slightly before adding the sugar to give the pectin substance a chance to develop. Jam is a highly concentrated mass that will bum easily unless care is taken. Stir the mass from the bot tom to prevent burning. Cook briskly but watch carefully. Don’t let it simmer carelessly for hours if you want to protect flavor and color. The best jam is made when you do not add too much sugar. When you are not using a commercial pectin, the rule is three-quarters of a pound of sugar to one pound of fruit. U.S. Women Give Twin Beds the 'Cold Shoulder' NEW YORK.—Twin beds are dis appearing from the American scene because women dread a cold bed when they retire at night. Norman S. Dine, who has helped thousands of sheep-counters with the soporific gadgets he sells at the Lewis and Conger Sleep Shop, says women always have had the good sense to prefer double beds. “During my 15 years of selling sleeping accessories and advice," he said, “they confided in me. They said they liked a double bed be cause sleeping beside a man was re- aasuring and restful.” Many dreaded a cold bed and others, Dine said, claimed it was their only chance to talk to their husbands. “Practically all agreed It im proved the chance for domestic har mony.” But, Dine said, the males couldn’t see it that way. They insisted upon their privacy. Men Are IndividuaUsta They argued that in a double bed they couldn’t retain their individual ism. And all of them, according to Dine, wanted to be able to sprawl over the entire bed. “So even though a sampling sur vey showed that men could sleep sounder in a double bed,” Dine re counted, “we had to resort to sub terfuge to lure them into one.” The subterfuge took the form of three devices, all of which will go down in history alongside Dine’s 600 other sleepy-time inventions. They were dreamed up to give the woman back her partner while let ting the man retain his rights. The first device. Dine said, is a bundle bed. This has a gadget that can be thrown down th# middle of the mattress, fencing off the part ners. That, he pointed out, keeps the partners from poaching on each other’s territory. The second gadget is a mattress with a hard set of coils in the cen ter. This is to discourage either partner from rolling into the center of the bed. The third is an electric blanket with a cold zone in the center to keep either partner from grabbing more than his half. Gadgets Aid Sleep Dine’s unique sleep shop has some other gadgets to help you snooze. He offers a lullaphone that lulls the wide-awake person to sleep with its drowsy, steady tone; a head-warm> er for bald scalps sensitive to cold and a singing pillow equipped with radio earphones. Among the patrons of the world’s only sleep shop are such notables as Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt, Mrs. Eu gene O’Neill, Walter Winchell, Gip sy Rose Lee, Katherine Cornell, J. Edgar Hoover and Moss Hart. “They are not incurable insomni acs,” Dine said. “They’ve just learned they have to plan for a sleep in advance.” Nationwide Registration Of All Babies is Suggested WASHINGTON. — A nation-wide system of assigning serial numbers to all new-born babies has been pro posed with the approval of the United States public health service. Herbert R. Dunning, administra tive officer for the services nation al office of vital statistics, told of the system. He said it has been recommended by state and national compilers of vital statistics to achieve uiftform- ity in the numbering of birth certif icates. “No federal agency is committed to the use of the number,” Dunning told a reporter, “but it is conceiv able that any agency could make use of such a number.” Under the “birth number” a num ber like this would be placed on the birth record: 125-48-125000. The “1” would stand for the United States. The other two num bers in that segment “25,” would stand for the particular state, each being assigned a two-digit number. The “48” would stand for 1948. The third segment “125000” would mean that this birth record was the 125,000th filed in the records of that particular state. Scientists to Probe Lack of Traffic Problems Among Fish BIMINI, BAHAMAS.—If fish were people, 300 of them could board a subway train in two minutes with out bumping, shoving or rubbing el bows. How do they do it? That is one of the fish mysteries which scientists hope to solve at the Mich^el-Lerner marine laboratory here which Sir William Murphy, governor of the Bahamas, dedi cated. The $100,000 research center, only 60 miles east of Miami, was founded by the American Museum of Nat ural History. Lemer, noted game fisherman and trustee of the muse um, is its principal backer. Dr. C. M. Breder, jr., of New York, is sci entific director. Philip Wylie, author and member of the advisory committee, said the ability of a large number of fish to rush through a limited space with out bumping and shoving is a small part of the study to be undertaken on fish behavior. FIRST AID to the C JiC AILING house by Roger C. Whitman « QUESTION: Is it necessary to flush a hot water system every year or two? ANSWER: At the beginning of the heating season it is advisable to draw off several pailfuls of water to flush off some of the accumula tion in the boiler, but it is not neces sary to drain off the entire heating system. Use a boiler cleaning com pound every two or three years. QUESTION: How can I get grease spots off cement steps? ANSWER: Cover the spot with a thick layer of dry Portland ce ment, leaving it on for several days. After the powder is saturated with the oil, scrape it off and repeat sev eral times until no more is absorb ed. Later, scrub the place with a strong solution of washing soda. AS PURE AS MONEY CAW BUY St.Joseph aspirin WORLDS LARGEST SELLER AT I0< FLIT ROACH KILLER CONTAINS CHLORDANE ( c ,o H 6 ci ii It b easy to rid your home of roaches with the new Flit Roach Killer. Spray it around roach infested areas. It leaves an invisible film that keeps on killing roaches for a long time. 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